From: Jacques Caron (Jacques.Caron_at_IPsector.com)
Date: 2002-09-27 15:41:09 UTC
Routing should definitely never be a problem, but bridging will only work 
in certain conditions (i.e. in hostap or wds mode), not when the card is 
configured as a client.
Jacques.
At 17:32 27/09/2002, Jun Sun wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 05:55:18PM -0700, Bob Curnow wrote:
> > Hi, the sysadm. has been looking at the hostap driver in freebsd 
> 4.7.  We have been usiing orinoco cards and routing.  He was wondering if 
> the hostap driver can do routing also?  We got a demarctech 180mw card 
> for testing, but no luck so far.
> > Please let us know, Bob C
> >
>
>I don't know about FreeBSD, but in Linux routing or bridging has little
>to do with driver.  I have tried hostap in both routing and bridging
>mode, they all work fine.  In fact I also tried it in
>"gateway" mode where you do IP masqeurading (NAT).
>
>Jun